Make a USB Boot CD for Xubuntu 9.10 or 10.04

How to Create a USB Boot CD that can be used to boot a Xubuntu USB flash drive on computers with a BIOS that does not natively support booting from USB. A Boot CD created via this process works by loading the Initial Ram Filesystem along with any USB drivers from the CD. Because the USB drivers are made available from the Boot CD, the system will then attempt to find, decompress and load the final Xubuntu squash filesystem and casper-rw persistence file (if it exists) from the USB flash drive.

Essentials to make a USB Boot CD for Xubuntu 9.10 or 10.04

Test PC with a BIOS that doesn't support booting from USB

PC that can boot from USB or the Live CD

Working CD Burner

USB flash drive with Xubuntu preinstalled

How to Create a CD to Boot Kubuntu from USB

Note: We prefer to perform the following steps by booting from a prebuilt Xbuntu 10.04 Live USB on a machine that does support booting from USB. This allows us to free up the CD Burner and use it to burn the final ISO.

Insert your Xubuntu Live USB or Live CD and restart your computer, booting from the device

Open a Terminal (Applications > Accessories >Terminal)

Type sudo apt-get install grub

Type mkdir -p ubcdx/boot/grub

Type cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito ubcdx/boot/grub

Type mousepad ubcdx/boot/grub/menu.lst
Copy the following information to the menu.lst file and save the file: